Baisez-moi
"Baisez-moi" (French: "Kiss me") is a renaissance French chanson for 4 voices, anonymous in publication by Pierre Attaignant but attributed to the composer Josquin Desprez. The song was the model for masses by Petrus Roselli[1] and the Missa Baises-moy by Mathurin Forestier.[2]
Lyrics[edit]
- Baisez moy ma doulce amy
- Par amour je vous en prie
- Non feray. Et pour quoy?
- Si je faisois la folie
- Ma mere en seroit marye
- Vela de quoy.
Recordings[edit]
The song was recorded by the Kings Singers on the 1975 album The Kings Singers Concert Collection in a sequence of 5 chansons: La belle Margarite by Clemens non Papa,[3] Baisez moi by Josquin Desprez, Petite camusette, also attributed to Josquin Desprez, Mon coeur en vous (anonymous) and Au joly jeu du pousse avant by Clément Jannequin.
References[edit]
- ^ A Dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1889)
- ^ Robert Wangermée - Flemish Music and Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 1968 p 92 "As early as 1549, certain finicky minds had caviled at the assigning to masses of titles such as A I'ombre d'un buyssonet (Brumel), L'Ami Baudichon (Josquin), Baisez-moi (Forestier), La belle se sied (Ghiselin), Faulte d 'argent (Mouton),"
- ^ "La belle marguerite, c'est une noble fleur prenez (malgré) qu'elle est petite elle est de grande valeur."
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